Last Place Quotes

• The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Real, Borders, Rivals

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• I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Lasts, Looks

  "Season of Mists (The Sandman #21: Prologue)". Book by Neil Gaiman, December 1990.

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• When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, People

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• Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

  Ben Hecht

  Hair, Television, Lasts

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• My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last place on earth we had that was unscathed. But people have climbed over the fence; they've taken aerial shots. They've gotten my address and put it on the Internet.

  Steven Tyler

  Taken, Home, People

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• Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

  Louis Zamperini

  Sports, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

  Julius Caesar

  Enemy, Looks, Lasts

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• If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Moving, Finding Yourself, Lasts

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• We millennials have been advertised to our entire lives, and we can tell when somebody is just trying to sell us something. I think church is the last place I want to go to be sold another product.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Thinking, Trying, Church

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• The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

  Wayne Muller

  Healing, Looks, Lasts

  Wayne Muller (1993). “Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantage of a Painful Childhood”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

  Samuel Beckett

  Dream, Dust, Order

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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• Your path is clear,” said Moon Man. “You need to find it.” And the best way to find something you had lost was to return to the last place you remembered having it. In my case, I needed to start at the very beginning.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Moon, Men, Needs

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Magic Study”, p.254, MIRA

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• Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Motivation, Inspiration, Long

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• I'm the kind of person that as long as you respect me and don't distract me before the game, then I'll respect you in return and accommodate you after the game. Sometimes the situation dictates that I talk, but everybody should understand I'm not going to talk every day, whether we're in first place or last place.

  Albert Belle

  Games, Long, Lasts

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• It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

  Benjamin Moser

  Mean, Shoes, Literature

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• Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Thinking, Intellectual, Intuition

  "Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type".

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• The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old.

  Dennis Prager

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

  Erykah Badu

  Competition, Levels, Lasts

  Hip Online Interview, hiponline.com. January 22, 2001.

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• I always went into an area that was in last place, with a philosophy, 'You can't fall off the floor.' And I was lucky, was at the right time and the right place, with the right ideas, and each one of these areas became number one.

  Michael Eisner

  Positive, Philosophy, Fall

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• On My Last-Place Finish in the 50-Yard Dash During Little League Tryouts “It kinda looked like you were being attacked by a bunch of bees or something. Then when I saw the fat kid with the watch who was timing you start laughing…. Well, I’ll just say it’s never a good sign when a fat kid laughs at you.

  Justin Halpern

  Kids, League, Laughing

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• I don't get what's happening to Jose Mourinho of late. He's lapsing into the kind of Portuguese moroseness you get from staring at the Atlantic horizon and imagining you're the last place in the world, while listening to endless renditions of the fado. His latest line about 'everyone hates us and we don't care' sounds like vintage Joe Kinnear in the great days of the Wimbledon Crazy Gang.

  Peter Chapman

  Soccer, Football, Hate

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• I think one of the things that makes theater special is first of all, it's one of the last places you put your phone away. And second of all, it's one of the last places where we all have a common experience together.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Thinking, Phones, Special

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.

  Jared Kushner

  Thinking, Careers, Would Be

  "The Rise Of Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's Son-In-Law". "Morning Edition" with David Folkenflik, bpr.org. November 18, 2016.

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• You should never have gotten to the stage where you could see the last ancient forests! Just get out of there right now, because the lessons you need to learn are there. That's the last place you'll find those lessons readable.

  Bill Mollison

  Needs, Lessons, Lasts

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• The folkish state must not adjust its entire educational work primarily to the inoculation of mere knowledge, but to the breeding of absolutely healthy bodies. The training of mental abilities is only secondary.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Determination, Taken

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